Dr Who?

Couple of hour trip for me, but not going cannot be arsed with premier league teams!

Barnsley, Burnley, Huddersfield, Grimsby, Bradford, or Wigan, away please. would like Barnsley as I have never been to Oakwell.

Can we get anyone now or is it still divided north and south? sorry just read the initial thread post.

I think the 5-0 half time will be the end for him again, just like in the Spurs game with us. Did he go down the tunnel this time and think it was 3-0 at half time? 😂

Good job this was not womens football as it would be all over social media how poor it is! All in slow motion.

I think we are all forgetting the first 42 minutes until the goal out of the blue, but perhaps just perhaps that winning games gives us our mojo. Let’s face it we have only been in the lead against a team in the championship for less than a minute. I think we are still very fragile from our bruising Premier League campaign, but we just got better and better in this game, you could see the confidence returning. Downes and Wood were terrible, and Downes has been terrible all season, so Laboured and seems not bothered. Oh well, we will see how we line up on Saturday and then the real test will start again.

Just need to get him to #gingerpoch

Makes up the numbers.

This worked brilliantly during our double promotion seasons, but we had the personal to execute it!

The journey home just made me grumpy as well. I thought it was very poor. Also it will be my only home game of the season with my 13 year old, so want it to be good, to make a statement to the rest of the league, and we did not show up. We were not sharp enough or on our game. Lose that game in 2 weeks and the natives will turn.

That was an awful and so disjointed performance. It was like the players had never met. Slinging balls into the box straight to the keeper and on other occasions like the players had their eyes closed while crossing the ball. There was no technique or accuracy at all. The passing was sluggish, slow and again way off the mark, and there was not any fight. Ok we have time to sort this mess of a team out, but if we play the skates like that they rip into us. I fear that game at the moment. I was so pee’d off on the 7 hour journey home to Carlisle, not that we lost as I knew Stoke were high on confidence and well organised, but how we failed to turn up for a home game, and 30 minutes against 10 men. Absolutely clueless, headless chickens. Saying this the team were set up to fail with 5 at the back and only 1 up front at home as one of favourites for the league is criminal. Drop your data and stats and just man manage your team with what you see week in week out in training, this is real life football, not a computer game. You should have seen some of the puffed out chests and swaggers of the Stoke fans as they walked around the services on the way back to Carlisle. Annoying, but fair play to them, we would be the same in their position… intolerable! I do think they need to make the most of it as they will drop away, but as I have said confidence is a massive thing in football, as is togetherness as a club, and Robins brings that to Stoke, and we are way off at the moment.

When I got my tickets for this, I thought it would be pretty much as much of a home banker you could wish for. Stoke City in on a downward spiral and us being one of the favourites for the title. Now I’m not so sure. We seem a bit disjointed and Stoke are top of the league and their confidence will be sky high.

But when I bet it never comes in. Yesterday I was at the Carlisle game, and when they were 3-1 up with 15 minutes left I said to my boy, Carlisle are sitting back I can see this causing problems (because they cannot defend). I said I can see this being 3-3. Also when Boreham Wood got back to 3-2, the scoreboard came up with 3-3. 😂. if I had bet on it, neither of these would have happened, even though they did!

Think this will be one of the toughest fixtures of the season, but being early on in the season who knows. But hoping we can get at least a draw. Would be nice to show our intent for the season, but need to sort out the finishing. 1-1?

100% would have been ruled out in the premier league but oh well, what a comeback ❤️

I’m going back into the pool in Bodrum. Let’s hope we turn this around now!

This has a very strange familiar feel feel to it. Loads of possession, tapping the ball around, but no end product? Let’s hope that changes.

The last time we played them in the league at home was November 1959 and we won 3-0. The last time we played them at home was August 1979 in the league cup, and we won 5-0 as part of an aggregate score of 8-0.

The Saints women squad is looking very light on the ground, with a first team squad of just 20. With only 1 recognised goalkeeper, and 4 attackers. I think the rest is ok with 8 defenders and 7 midfielders, but the whole squad (what there is of it) seems a little thin on the ground. Of these 20, 10 of the squad are new, with ALL of our forwards from last season departing! I think it is a transitional season for sure and there seems to be huge cut backs. I think this season we will be in the bottom 3rd.

Who else in here has a little flutter on the footy? I always pop my curse on several clubs at the start of the season, and then throughout the season each week. Nothing silly just little bets. This season I have gone for the below for the season ahead. Premier League Champions - Liverpool Championship Champions - Sheff Utd League One Champions - Luton Town League Two Champions - MK Dons National League Champions - York City Then around the end of September/early October I will have a rethink and pop my curse on those that have started well. 😜 Every week during the season I do my football bingo, which is both teams to score over the top 5 leagues, around 8 or 9 games, and a long favourites accy of about 12-15 teams to win and a long shot, teams I have a feeling might pull off the result, this is only around 5 teams, and to be far is my best returns over a season. Sometimes if a favourite is losing at half time or halfway through the second half I pop a few quid on them winning. 😊 All fun but like I say a harmless couple of quid on each a week. Do you have any better habits. If I go to a game I do not bet on that day!

My son’s team is now under 15s and still has girls in the teams. But we are op north.

There is a lot of talk about a certain Chloe Kelly being able to get into a premier league team. I do not think this is true and it is far off, but I do believe she could play at an English League Club. I have no idea what the rules are in the English Football League, but I think there is mixed football up to u16 and then they have divide into girls and boys teams. I think we are not there yet and it would kill the women’s game, IF the rules were changed and a handful of the better players got contracts in the men’s game, as the impact on the women’s game would destroy it taking the best players away. The whole impact on women’s teams would see the collapse of the women’s game and have a decremental impact on the future of female teams and players. Also how would it work? A lot of the women players could get into a mens team in the league, but then would they be able to play in the women’s international team or would they enter the men’s set up, would there be an England international team anymore? It would completely shift the dimension of the women’s game. Eventually it will happen, not in my lifetime, I’m not sure if we are ready for the change yet by a long shot, but if a woman has a trial at a football club and the club think they are good enough, why should they not have the chance of signing for them? I have no idea how the powers that be would need to go about this, but as I say, if they are good enough on merit woman should be able to play in the English Football League? It is easy to say ‘so and so is good enough to play in a men’s team’ but there is so much more of a bigger picture and the politics and negative impact it would have when the women’s game has come such a long way. It would be crackers to change it for the few players that ‘might get in’. But this is football so nothing would surprise me. Thought it would make an interesting discussion. 😊

I think this is huge in football across the board, or any team sport. Very much like our double promotion under Nigel. Yes you need some ability but togetherness and team spirit is massive.

This team and their fight is second to none. Unbelievers team spirit!

That’s how it’s done lads!